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Message Subject How far should private business be forced to go to accommodate handicap individuals?
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If you actually knew what it was like to have a physical or sensory disability, you would know how far a business should have to go.

Why shouldn't we enjoy a movie the same as everyone else does?

I wish you could spend a week with a physical or sensory disability, then you might decide that your original post may need altering, as your douche is quite prominent throughout.
 Quoting: InsertWittyNameHere


I make my living making handicapped individual's lives better. Our company alters any home or business to fit the needs of the occupants, no matter what the disability. Every day I see what people with disabilities go through. I've worked for hours in houses with handicap children that basically scream all day. You cannot help but notice the effects on the parents and caregivers. It is beyond heartbreaking when you see the sacrifice people make every day. No, I cannot imagine the pain and discomfort of the afflicted they care for. How could I?

You are needlessly offended by this thread. I see both sides of the coin, because it is my business. I understand very much the desire for the disabled to enjoy life as much as possible, and do the things others enjoy for granted. I also see the business' side of things as well.
Maybe if we could start from scratch, and rebuild everything with the disabled in mind, things would be different. Things just don't work that way.
It requires not the law to change now, but people's minds. Developers, architects and contractors, and investors and the like are where it starts. Rather than being forced to comply after a building is up, the handicapped accessibility needs to be in the blueprint.

There has to be a happy medium. But what's the answer?
 Quoting: RantProne


I am registered blind.
I have to pay for everything to enable me to do things non blind people can do for free.
If I want to walk outside, I have to have a white cane that cost me £30, and needs replacing every few months.
To use a computer, I cannot just go into pc world and buy a special offer, I have to go to RNIB and buy a computer system costing over £1000.
To read my own mail, I either have to ask someone else to read it for me, or buy a cctv screenreader for hundreds of pounds (Because the company sending the letter "doesn't have the facility" (I.e. can't be arsed) to send it in large print - government departments are the worst for this.
Cooking a meal involves specialist equipment that is much more expensive than the "mainstream" version.
I cannot use an ATM, so cannot access my hard earned money 24 hours a day like other people - unless I give someone my PIN number.

I work hard and pay for all of the things I need myself.

I work over 40 hours a week, am I not entitled to go to a theatre or cinema, because the premises has to pay a little extra?

A one off cost, then a smaller amount every so often for maintenance for very snmall numbers of people to use - who are paying to use the services of the premises after all.

I have to buy expensive things all of the time just to enable myself to go out to work and earn money!
 
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